Improvement in chairs



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PETER BUCKL'EY, OF VIENNA, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO I-IIM- r SEL- F AND EDWIN'BULGIN, OF SAME PLAGE.'

Letters Patent No. 92,576, (lated Jalfy 1d, A1869.

:MpizovnMnNr l1N CHAIRS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

.To all whom 'ltmay concern v Be it known that I, PETER BUCKLEY, of the town o'f Vienna, in the county of Warren, in the State of Y New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful formed in a sort of lattice or open work.

.It also has for its object the vsubstitution of this material for the dag or rush so commonly used for the seat in a kind of chair known by the tradeas the cottage-chair The nature of my invention consists in a peculiar and novel kind of loop, by whichthe material is secured to the frame or rims of the seat, woven and formed in such a manner as ,to render it perfectly secure and strong, so as .to eectually resist any vpress-l ure without the loop giving way, or yielding in the slightest tothe action of the pressure brought to bear upon it.

The advantages 'of this in'v'ention are obvious, for the reason that in the rst place the material employed can be4 obtained' at a very cheapgprice, vsay ten cents per pound, it being that portion of the rattan which is leftater stripping oli' ythe outer glossy porl tionv for making the ordinary cane-seated chair, and one pound of this material will maketwo seats for the ordinary cottagechair, while the flag or 'rush matelial costs more than double that amount.

- Another important advantage is, that persons of ordinary skill can make no more than four seats in/ a -day with the tlag or rush, while the same persons can make from t'en to twelve per day with the material I use, which requires no paint or finish as in the case of the flag or rush seats.

I may also state that, if ,in a seat made after my improved method, one of the strands should be accidentally cut or broken, none of the other strands are loosened thereby. I

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will .proceed to describe its construction.

figure I is a front elevation of a common cottagechair, provided with my invention. 1

Figure II is a top-plan view of a portion of a seat,

partially finished, to show the method of constructing Letters of like name and kind indicate like parts in each of the figures. t

D represents a chair of common construction, with myarattan or cane seat and back.

The seat and back are formedA by having the material split, or brought to a proper and convenient size.

The method of forming the loop and weaving the seat is as follows:

A strand or length of the cane, a, indicated by thel blacklines', is taken and secured to one side, A, of the frame, by placing one endof the strand on the under side of the frame, as seen by the dotted lines at b, when the loop is formed by carrying the strand a short distance transversely along the inner side of the frame; then under the ame, over the end above inentioned; then over the frame and4 between the y frame 'and the transverseportion, when it is'drawnV tight, and a loop Ais thus formed.

' Theistrand is then carried across to the other side B of the frame, and wound round one ormore times,

lwhen another loop, as seen at c, -is formed, after' which it is again brought backto the side A of the frame; this processbeing repeated until the-end' of the frame is reached. j 't Another strand,` indicated bythe red lines,i s their secured, in asimilar manneras seen at el on the opposite cover of the frame, and' manipulated in the same. way, but in the opposite direction, by which 1 means another strand of t e warp 4is. formed, and the vacant portions ff of the frame-are covered.` -Instead of securing the second strand, indicated by the red lines at cl,-it may be secured on the'side B of the frame, at the lcorner nearest c, and worked in at the same time as the strandI a,l by which means both the strands forming the warp are put in, and the vae cant spaces ff are filled as the work .progressesthe loop being formed in the manner above'described, ex-

cept that the, transverse portion is drawn over .both

strands of the warp at the same time.

The woef is formed bypassing 'a strand transversely backward and forward across the `frame, and alternatelyA over and beneath the strands which form4 the warp.' V

When the whole of the seat has thus been covered, one or more separate pieces of the cane maybe in serted alongside of the strands forming the Warp, so as to increase the closeness of the texture.

l'A seat formed in this mannerisexceedingly strong, neat, and durable, and possessesthe advantage of being very cheap in its construction; and like\vise, if one ofthe strands should be accidentally cut or broken, the rest of thestrands will not be loosened thereby.`

Having thus'described my invention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

VThe method of forming the loop, and constructingl the seat andback of the chair with rattan, or other material, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

Witnesses: A. C. HOWELL G. ALBERTsoN.

Pern-a Buckner;A 

